[Sherwood Ball]

Where at Apple.com do you post a feature request for FCPro?

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

Jerry,
I’m running 5.1.1
I’ve been avoiding updating in the middle of a project.
I’ve been a beta sufferer for many software updates until I get a green
light from those in the know.

Your advice on 5.2 update?

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

The reason I nested was I have eleven chapters in my Doc.
It was mainly in the interest of saving time, getting from
one section to another.

Double clicking on the nest to open the chapter is not a perturbance,
it was actually easier than constantly update the timeline location
of the markers.

My problem was when we played back the timeline with the nests,
audio files were clipped on interviewees on crucial dialog lines,
too much randomity. I did not know about taking the opacity of
a nest, bringing to “0” and then back up again and render.

I think the problem was pref’s needing trashing and corrupted render files,
although I don’t know yet, because I can’t take the time to re-render
the whole project.
I’m no longer using nests. I can’t afford any more problems.
I must finish the project as it is a viable marketable product
and will continue to “make it so”, since I own it.

I basically need to do some tweaks over the next two weeks, when my
co-producer leaves, then will back up the whole project on a new
SATA drive and do the re-render boogie.

Wish me luck. Doh!

Thnx.
Sherwood

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

Thnx Reel,
Not so much priority on preserving markers, because the cut is
what’s important.

Just that with the addition of each new element the markers shift
down the timeline and I have to go into Marker/Edit and change
the time position in the marker so that it lines up.
Not complaining, just a little tedious.

Is there a way to tie a marker to the beginning of a particular clip,
that way it stays in the relative position without the inputting
of location in the marker/edit?

Sherwood

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

Ha! Un-Nest and go West my boy!

I was given information that I relied on, instead of checking it out
for myself. My responsibility.

Actually the nesting made it easier instead of updating the position
of markers everytime I add more footage or elements, expanding the
section of the movie.

Difficult to jump quickly to dif sections of a feature when the markers
locations shift with new elements.

Any techniques you guys use to jump from dif sections of the
timeline?

I accept the workflow. The workflow is my friend.
Thnx.

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

Digitized with reenactment and insert footage with the camera itself,
DVX100, the rest .pngs, .jpegs copied onto the drive with the media folder
and subfolder “jpgs” and then imported into the project in appropriate
bin…e.g. “Headlines, FBI Files, Photos, etc.”

Is there anything I should avoid as far as bin hierarchy?
I have sub bins under Headlines and sub bins in each of the other bins
for organizational purposes and to be to find something in these thousand
files. yikes.

I will continue working on this project through December, computer graphics,
capturing more inserts/reenactments, and scoring to finish the PRODUCT,
with or without fest acceptance.

Having your help and really made a difference AND made it possible
to create this puppy.

Thank you ALL.
Sherwood

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

Will definitely trash all render files and pref’s.

Everything is uniquely named.
Documentary full of headlines, pictures, reenactments, AE mov’s,
typed chapter headings.

Nested just for organizational purposes.
Unfortunately, went on someone’s recommendation to nest without
all of the necessary info of changing the opacity of the nest and rendering.

Internal SATA Card with two external SATA drives.
One for the project, one as backup.
Now running both because my other editor worked on dif sections.
Need to copy everything over to new blank drive, verify and start
with fresh renders, etc.

Thanks guys.

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Studio 5.1.1, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

BTW, made the upgrade to 5.1.1 three weeks ago.

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Pro 4.5HD, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

Gentlemen,
Thank you for your willingness to help.

Here are some examples of the anamolies that have happened:

Interviewee starts talking, after a few seconds cut to photographs,
headlines, reenactments, so I can tighten the audio dialog rambling.
Lock the track when finished.

Create opacity fade up and fade downs on a headline with an
overlap into another viz clip.
Lock track

Save.

Next day open project.

Audio dialog shows the same regions cut, but the content has been
shifted to another portion of the interview.

Headline is not black frames because for some reason in the Motion tab
the opacity changes are further down the timeline.

When nesting, when you open the nest and edit, then save and close,
later on playing back of the nest clips off ends of dialog phrases,
yet when you open the nest and play the elements in the timeline,
no clipping of dialog.

If I wasn just the producer on this feature, I would think it was
pilot error and hire someone else.

Gentlemen, I have read the tutorials, I have watched tutorials
and edited several projects, but could not pin this down.
I enlisted the services of my close friend long time professional
working editor for major film company trailers, etc.
He has experienced the same problems of filter settings shifting
down the timeline, audio clips being cut off, viz clips turned to
black and so forth.

I believe it was Shane that suggested the most realistic workaround,
export to QT, put the QT’s in a new sequence and then export to
Compressor.

Unfortunately, without this knowledge we submitted a very profound,
poignant documentary to Sundance that looks like a monkey edited it.
I just pray that the DVD burn WON’T play on their system and
that we can submit a vhs with the fixes.

I spent 120 days straight, 16 hours a day editing this puppie,
so I know the command keys, the filters and have learned a few things
from the generous folk here at the Cow.

Is there some button I missed that keeps the elements steadfast?
I have even exported my dialog edits into an .aif and reimported
it to avoid this slippage weirdness.

I apologize for coming off too strong.
I want this to work. I have not cut on Avid.
I have overseen many edits on Avid, Media 100, & FCP
as a director and producer.
Fortunately, I made the leap three years ago doing mostly
one minute spots and short form.

What I meant by using the incorrect term of Random Access Memory
is the nature of computers using pathways to the source material
instead of linearly, hence non-linear.

I encountered this same difficulty with regions shifting
in the beginning of hard disk recording for audio until it became
more stable years later.

I hope this helps clarify what’s been happening.
If I wasn’t the producer on this, I certainly would have been
fired for these anamolies.

Sherwood

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Pro 4.5HD, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2

[Sherwood Ball]

Only one or two audio tracks of an interviewee being clipped.

Pref’s are at 8 audio trks.

WHat’s to mixdown with only one or two tracks?
But a good policy, thank you, for anything over that amount.

G5 Dual 2.5 GHz
4G Ram OSX4.6
Sata drives
Final Cut Pro 4.5HD, Logic Audio 7.1
PS CS2, AE CS2